The sections of ship are designed to be isolable from each other. Close a door, shut some duct work to isolate air, and you're fat dumb and happy back in the engine room!

Uh, except commenters and Wikipedia both say that's not true - that the Los Angeles class has only 1-2 bulkhead doors and they most likely had cables and plumbing passed through, making them impossible to seal.

I guess you're just full of shit, then, and lying about serving on one of these subs. Nobody knows you're a dog on the internet, huh?

I'm sure that the nuclear operators stayed at their watch stations during all this

Why? The reactor's probably completely shutdown in drydock anyway, but....SCRAM the reactor, grab your jacket, and exit stage left like everyone else. It's a PWR reactor - not a liquid metal reactor that would be permanently damaged by shutdown.

Is there really a point to sticking around? I'm genuinely curious.

RMS has spent his life fighting for your rights.

No. Richard Stallman has spent most of his adult life:

• having zero political sense or capital
• despite the first, hampering the free software movement by presenting extremist, uncompromising views that get him (and the FSF/Open Source movement) laughed out of the room
• preaching exclusively his vision of utopia
• maintaining a text editor
• not giving two shits about what anyone else wants/thinks/believes/needs, which is a problem given he fancies himself a leader and representative
• not asking for others opinions, collaborating, or accepting constructive criticism
• not having any perception of how he is received, judged, or viewed

He shares a disturbing number of qualities with your average cult leader.

It was only until many other more reasonable voices and non-FSF software appeared that the open source movement gained traction. And what was his response? Continual bitterness, which has shown up in him demanding Linux be called GNU/Linux.

While revered by some geeks, he's almost completely ignored by government, academia, and industry and not taken seriously by anyone with power in any of them. He is a sociopathic egomaniac, and while I wish to hell he'd retire to a small corner of the world - I don't want it to be because of poor health, and I hope he's better soon.

...not attacking us; there's no point. They want to challenge our force projection and protection of other countries, especially those they want land and resources from. They could care fuck-all about North America. They want oil, rare earth metals, and territory buffer/control near them. We've been a thorn in their side, protecting Japan and a whole lot of the rest of Asia from them.

The US outspends China almost 10:1, and has for the past 10 years, that doesn't look to be changing, but China will still be spending more in 13 years than the US, who is spending 10 times as much today.

Did you even TRY to verify your facts before you posted that? Or are you seriously believing the official China figures of $25BN? You're off by an enormous amount:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Comparison_with_other_countries

"Jane's Defence Forecasts in 2012 estimated that China's defense budget would increase from $119.80 billion to $238.20 billion between 2011 and 2015. This would make it larger than the defense budgets of all other major Asian nations combined."

That's about a third of current US military spending. Which is currently declining (as it should.) And was sized to support 2 wars, both of which are largely over. And the current pentagon leadership has declared their spending to be unsustainable for the country.

Demands on the vehicle's systems are such that many cars now have their alternators plumbed into the engine cooling system, and are even shaft-driven because of belt slippage. 12V has proven to be a significant burden on carmakers wiring-wise these days with all of the demand for electronics in the car. It wasn't too long ago that cars only had 2 or so computers - the engine control unit, and the ABS controller. I've got a car with almost a dozen - engine, climate, "chassis" (lights, locking, wipers, etc), suspension control, ABS/traction control, airbag, navigation...god knows what else. No DVD player or "entertainment" system beyond the stereo.

Electric steering pumps are increasingly common - they're compact, easy to locate anywhere, easy to control which simplifies hydraulics, and help with fuel economy since there's much less parasitic load.

Even back in the 80's, it was a problem. Audi located the battery in the back seat for crash safety, engine compartment room, and battery longevity (less temperature extremes) - but the cable that goes to the front is pretty damn massive, and failures where they splice a Y off to the main fusebox is fairly common and cause lots of problems because of the voltage drop. The problem was exacerbated by the use of an electric cooling fan which could draw well over a thousand watts - I think the fuseable link by the fan motor is rated for over 100A.

Car companies have been making noises about switching to 24V systems, with a 12V bus only for cigarette lighter accessories...it'd cut down significantly on the size of the wiring needed (which means cutting down on weight!) and transmission losses, both of which will improve gas economy.

You wonder why their government might panic at anything that even remotely hints as being climate-related? 100 billion reasons.

But I doubt his broken nose claim is true.

I've seen at least two people's noses broken through accidental contact on a sports field. In one case, there wasn't even much blood. In both cases, you couldn't tell anything was wrong just by looking at them, and these were both people I'd known for years. Yet you expect to judge whether a nose is broken on a dude you've never seen in person, from a blurry, low resolution video? Seriously?

Also, what's with this "forensic voiceprint" bullshit? Is this of the same caliber as "forensic hair analysis", which was used to put hundreds of innocent (and mostly black men) people on death row? This is the most irresponsible bullshit I've ever seen Slashdot come up with - you're helping try him in the court of public opinion, not to mention providing a huge slashvertisement for owen.

If you want an extra sensor for something, they are happy to give it to you - but they will want to know why, and if they don't think it's needed, they'll try to talk you out of it. I had the feeling they actually cared about my interests, and not selling me more equipment.

That's because the more sensors you have, the more likely you are to have false alarms, need warranty service, etc.

They also have additional styles of sensors that the average joe doesn't care about (ones that you install in the door, rather than putting on the outside of the door - i.e. invisible)

You're joking, right? Doorjam sensors have been in popular use for decades. They're not popular among DIY'ers because you have to drill the door and doorjam (and get the alignment of both right), and it's not trivial to get the wiring there (ie a trained installer or electrician is needed.)

Assuming you live in Florida, start by chasing down passers-by with your car and shooting them with your gun.

You forgot the part where you lose sight of the passer-by, the passer-by (who is a foot taller than you) then chases *you* down, starts screaming, punches you in the face knocking you to the ground, and then proceeds to beat the stuffing out of you. In front of witnesses. Just for following him.

Treyvor Martin was a wannabe thug with a chip on his shoulder who was angry at the world for being suspended from school where he was dealing drugs. Funny how nobody is talking about black hatred for non-blacks here, or his drug problems?